Obtaining screen pap smear at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$9.98
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$57.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$22.71 with United vs $79.72 with NX Health — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $22.71 | ↑ +128% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $23.85 | ↑ +139% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $24.04 | ↑ +141% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↑ +146% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↑ +146% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $25.02 | ↑ +151% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $25.27 | ↑ +153% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $26.25 | ↑ +163% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.93 | ↑ +180% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $27.93 | ↑ +180% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $28.21 | ↑ +183% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.05 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $31.35 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $31.92 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $34.77 | ↑ +248% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $35.57 | ↑ +256% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $36.80 | ↑ +269% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $44.23 | ↑ +343% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $48.45 | ↑ +385% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $52.70 | ↑ +428% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $55.19 | ↑ +453% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $57.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $57.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $57.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $57.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $57.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $73.59 | ↑ +637% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $79.72 | ↑ +699% |
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Obtaining screen pap smear at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $18.46 | $6.15 – $73.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $18.46 | $4.61 – $73.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $18.46 | $3.38 – $102.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - TAYLOR | Taylor | $18.46 | $5.84 – $73.76 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $44.52 | $86.42 – $86.42 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $21.70 | $16.74 – $62.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $9.98 | $7.27 – $57.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $21.70 | $16.74 – $62.00 |